Vevor Hydraulic Tire Bead Breaker

I bought this for a difficult job. Some old hard offroad tires. Eventually it did “help” with it, but it certainly wasn’t a magic answer.

The feet on it do not line up. This makes it impossible to push in between the rim and the bead. I pulled the two fixed feet off and milled about 180 thousandths off to get them close, and then slightly narrowed the leading edges of all three feet with an angle grinder. On soft rubber tires that weren’t stuck in place that might have been enough, but for my application it was not.

I had to partially upset the beads with a slide hammer breaker, and then HAMMER in the feet for the hydraulic bead breaker. At that point I stepped on the pedal and waiting around sipping on my coffee while it chugged away finally popping the bead off in one location. On every tire on each side, I had to press with the hydraulic bead breaker in three places each next to the last in order to get the bead to fully pop off. It was a lot of work, but I expect a tire company machine would have struggled too.

Would I buy it again knowing what I know now. Maybe. The amount of time I spent would have easily paid for the cost of taking them to somebody else even if they charged extra because it was such a tough set of tires to remove. On other tires though I can see it being useful.

Next time I use it for something I’ll probably make a video so you can see how it works, but there are other videos online if you can’t wait.